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Regions Financial Corp. will reportedly get initial bids on Monday, July 25, from several major firms for the Memphis-based investment banking and capital markets business that Regions put on the auction block in June.

Minority business success aided by strong networking

J.W. Gibson, the former Shelby County commissioner and CEO of Memphis-based Gibson Cos., said minority entrepreneurs tend to focus more on things such as technical support and capital assets. And while those things are integral to developing a successful business model, relationships, he said, are the foundation.

“Put your name of the ballot – come on. We’re going to walk all over you,” Wharton said to potential challengers on the Oct. 6 ballot who include Shelby County Commissioner James Harvey, former Memphis City Council member Edmund Ford Sr. and seven others. “Don’t get in our way.”

Carolyn Chism Hardy initially thought owning her own business would be as a business consultant. She was a certified public accountant with a comfortable position and a specialty in cost efficiency at the Memphis Coors brewery in 2006 when Molson-Coors Brewing Co. put the Memphis plant up for sale.

Natasha Bowen might be the new president of the Memphis chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners and president of the Memphis chapter of the business consulting firm The Growth Coach, but success hasn’t always come easy for her.

It’s the week between the filing deadline for the Oct. 6 Memphis elections and the deadline for any candidates who made the first deadline to get out of the race by Thursday, July 28, at noon – the withdrawal deadline.

As real estate professionals gather this week to take a look at the latest numbers, they’ll not only learn about local residential and commercial trends, but also be brought up to speed about Memphis’ role in the global economy.

Two years before she died, Mother Teresa was in the U.S. for a meeting with lay members of her organization. It took place at a nice hotel. Presenters showed charts and noted donation increases but also expense increases. Mother finally got up and said that she was disbanding the hierarchy present, that they spent too much on unnecessary things.

Last week, we refocused on the genesis of this column by discussing how community engagement makes a good corporate and personal growth strategy. This week, let us talk about an organization that is recruiting, cultivating and engaging diverse talent to move Memphis forward: The Leadership Academy.

As city’s Hispanic population grows, so do business opportunities

By 2050, it’s projected all minorities combined will represent more than 50 percent of the U.S. population, and as the United States moves closer to becoming a minority-majority nation, the growing Hispanic population is increasingly becoming a major power player in the new economy.

One of the central tenets of our history is that the Yellow Fever epidemics of the 1870s changed the nature of Memphis because most of the city’s immigrant population either died or left the city during the catastrophe. History is a perpetual victim of our constant desire to manage it into tidy snippets.

Devotees of cocktails will argue the origins and ingredients of their favorite libations with the fervor of constitutional lawyers parsing the punctuation of the Bill of Rights. Certainly those who regard a correctly made Old-Fashioned or Floridita as a major component of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness will agree that going to the barricades to defend the purity and integrity of a cocktail merits the same iconic consideration as the image of five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising Old Glory on the heights of Iwo Jima.

The Dark and Stormy is a proprietary or brand-specific cocktail in that Gosling’s Black Seal Bermuda Rum has a lock on it. The drink, a combination of the already mentioned Gosling’s Black Seal Bermuda Rum and Barritt’s Bermuda Stone Ginger Beer – how brand-specific is that? – is popular in the Caribbean and up along the sailing centers of America’s Eastern Seaboard. It’s simple to make and tasty but rather one-dimensional in effect, yet sipping its amber-tinted effervescence definitely puts one in a mood to kiss the captain’s wife and batten down the hatches.

NEW YORK (AP) – McDonald's said Friday that its net income rose 15 percent in the second quarter as it continues to entice customers to buy new menu items even as the sluggish economy forces them to cut back spending in other areas.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Gridlock stubbornly held the high ground in the steamy capital Friday despite the threat of a government default in 11 days' time. Talks between President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner seemed stuck in limbo, and the Democratic-controlled Senate scuttled legislation drawn to conservatives' specifications.